UAE authorities issued an official directive banning Qatar's beIN Sports receivers and cards on Wednesday, Emirate's State News Agency (WAM) reported. 

Authorities also warned that any shop found selling or renewing subscriptions to the sports channels would be subject to fines.

In the past two days, both Saudi Arabia and Bahrain issued similar orders. 

On Monday, Saudi Arabia banned the import of beIN Sports receivers and stopped the sale and renewal of subscriptions. 

The country's General Commission for Audiovisual Media said it was acting out of “concern for the rights of its citizens and residents” without further elaborating. 

Bahrain issued similar directives on Tuesday.

The move comes amid the ongoing Qatari crisis and over a week after several countries, including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen severed diplomatic and transport ties with Doha. 

Prior to the most recent directive, users of beIN Sports in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain said the channel had been blocked since last week. 

Many also said they were unable to access the channel's website. 

However, officials in the three Gulf nations have stressed that all directives issued in relation to beIN Sports only affect future subscriptions and have no effect on current users.

BeIN Sports, is a spin-off of Al Jazeera, a Qatar state-funded television network. 

The sports media group has over 55 million pay-TV subscribers worldwide. 

Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef has been pretty vocal about U.S. President Donald Trump ... but this time his message was one of fear.

The 43-year-old surgeon-turned-comic recently expressed his concern for Muslims living in Trump's America in a video released by Now This.

"I'm scared, I'm fu**ing scared," Youssef says in the video. "What will happen to me and people who look like me?" he continues.

In the op-ed video, Youssef continues to criticize the system that attaches the word 'terrorism' only when the person involved has a certain skin complexion and comes from a certain faith, the system that has time and again blamed Muslims for terrorism, when in reality no one suffers from terrorism more than the community itself. 

"Making the lives of people who look like me more difficult will not make you safer," Youssef says, referencing policies proposed by Trump since taking office.

In just the first 100 days of Trump's presidency, Islamophobic incidents at U.S. borders spiked by 1,035 percent.

According to preliminary data released by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), 193 incidents involving U.S. Customs and Borders Protection were recorded from January to March of 2017, up from just 17 cases during the same period last year. 

Of the 193, 181 were recorded after Trump's attempted "Muslim ban," which was signed on Jan. 27.

Is banning Muslims really going to make the United States safer?